The “Regional DRR Planning Workshop for the Caribbean: DIPECHO Action Plan 2015-16” took place from 21 to 23 September in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The workshop was the first regional meeting under the framework of the 2015-2016 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean.

Workshop objectives:

• Strengthen the understanding of linkages between the goals and priorities of the 2015-2016 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean with global and regional frameworks for Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Facilitate the joint planning and stimulate collaboration between national and regional Disaster Risk Reduction stakeholders and DIPECHO partners.
• Develop a joint action plan around key themes identified in order to optimizing the impact and allowing scaling up
• Workshop agenda (en / es / fr)
• Logistical information (en)
• Concept note workshop (en)
• Workshop session overview (en)
• Planning workshop report
• Video Planning workshop
  
  

Thematic work plans and Terms of References of thematic working groups:

• Early Warning System
• Sendai Framework Implementation
• Disaster Risk Reduction Country Document
• Disaster Risk Reduction Communication
  
  

Workshop Sessions:

• Opening session: International and Regional Scenario for Disaster Risk Reduction Concept Note
  
  
• DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean 2015-2016 and Global Framework for the European Union
  Virginie André & Jocelyn Lance, ECHO
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,
  Raul Salazar, UNISDR
• Knowledge Fair: Get to know current disaster risk reduction initiatives and partners Concept Note
• High level Panel: Commemorating the “National Day for Disaster Prevention and Emergency Awareness” in Dominican Republic
  
  
• Session 1: Put global and regional frameworks into action
• Session 2: Disaster Risk Reduction Country Documents
• Session 3: Early Warning Systems, Moderator: Ronald Jackson, CDEMA
• Early Warning Systems in the Caribbean
  Marlon Clarke, UNDP Barbados / Reynette Royer, CADRIM -
• El Niño implications for the Caribbean and EWS
  Eduardo Zambrano, Oceanographer CIIFEN
• Good practices and lessons learned - EWS in the Caribbean:
  (1) Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards: Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions
  Bernardo Aliaga, UNESCO IOC
  (2) Early Warning System in the British Virgin Islands
  Jasen Penn, Department of Disaster Management
  (3) Early Warning System in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Houlda Peters, NEMO
  (4) Early Warning System in Cuba
  Raul Costa Gravalosa, Civil Defense Cuba
  
  
• Session 4: Disaster Risk Reduction Communication 

• ECHO visibility and communication tools
  Hilaire Avril, Regional Information Officer, ECHO
• Super voceros
  Humberto Jaime, Communication and Information Officer, UNISDR
• El cine como herramienta para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres
  Ana Paola van Dalen, Communication Advisor
• Uso de redes sociales en la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres
• DRR communication guidelines for the Caribbean (en / es) (agregar los links atras de en & es)
  Sandra Amlang, Programme Officer, UNISDR

 

Tool Presentations:

• The relationship between the private sector and the Communities, COOPI
• School Safety Index, Habitat for Humanity
• Operation Guide or Protection Toolkit, Safe the Children
• Methodological Guide for Disaster Reduction in Urban Areas, UNDP Haiti
• Multi-hazard App, IFRC
• Tsunami Risk Management in Education Centres and Guide for Teacher, UNDP Dominican Republic and UNESCO
• National Alert State Policy, ODPM
• CEWS Training Toolkit, IFRC
• Risk Reduction Management Centres: A Tool for Local Government in Cuba as part of the local EWS, UNDP Cuba
• DRR-MMAACO - The DRR Media Monitoring and Awareness, ODPM
• Public Awareness and Public Education, IFRC